Berean Standard Bible

  • Year 2016
  • Type Scripture
  • Genre Bible translation
  • Tradition Independent evangelical
  • Original language English

The Berean Standard Bible serves as a readable companion to the Berean Literal Bible, produced within the same multi-layer translation project, which moves from interlinear glosses through literal rendering to idiomatic English. It covers the complete Bible, translated from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, and is based on modern critical texts rather than on the traditional printed editions used by earlier English versions. Its approach is mediating, or readable-formal, in philosophy, seeking a middle path between word-for-word and thought-for-thought methods; it is classed as a fresh translation, though it draws on the Berean Literal Bible and its interlinear workflow as predecessor and base. Circulated primarily in digital form and widely distributed through online Bible study resources, it belongs to the stream of English translations produced for study alongside the original languages. Digital revisions continue, so exact citation should include the edition year.

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